. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . n, the city expanded into anarea of three hundred and twenty-seven square it stop there ? Men called visionaries see the futureport of New York at Montauk Point, witl all Long Islandin the greater ring. Shall it come to pass? No one cansay. And yet, again, without the seers eye or the proph-ets ken, one can see the indication and the the high tower of the Singer or the MetropolitanBuilding the eye travels around the ring and sees water-ways, landways, bridgeways, railways, radiating andcrossing, leading
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . n, the city expanded into anarea of three hundred and twenty-seven square it stop there ? Men called visionaries see the futureport of New York at Montauk Point, witl all Long Islandin the greater ring. Shall it come to pass? No one cansay. And yet, again, without the seers eye or the proph-ets ken, one can see the indication and the the high tower of the Singer or the MetropolitanBuilding the eye travels around the ring and sees water-ways, landways, bridgeways, railways, radiating andcrossing, leading outward and onward; and, followingthem closely, the new streets and buildings of the growingcity. Who knows that the city will stop at the thirty-mile limit, — that it will stop at all ? There is indication of still other things. New Yorkwill be a city with perhaps more grouping about munici-pal, business, and traffic centers than now; but thereis no suggestion that it will ever become a formal city,or like in plan to any other place that has ever iL. 98. —East Rivkr — Brooklyn Side TRAFFIC AND TRADE 425 That it will be a city of high buildings seems certain;and that it will always have its harbor setting, its bril-liant light and color, its sea-blue haze, and its mountain-blue air can hardly be doubted. The high dome andtower ghttering in the sun, the white wall half lost inshadow, the background of colored minarets projectedagainst the blue sky, should be heightened in splendorby the increase of scale. A city, magnificently pictur-esque, should be the result. The hkeness to Constanti-nople should fade out as too diminutive and inadequate;the resemblance to some city of Arabian Nights fancyshould grow. In the time to come, a quarter of a century hence, thetraveler returning to New York may find that the age ofwonders has not passed. The city should be more awe-inspiring then than ever — a city of the same hurryingenergy perhaps, devoted to business still, le
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